So, it's the beginning of a new year [I know, I know, the New Year started 5 days ago] and I've been meaning to get my social media act in order for the last few months now. Somehow, as a Mom, Wife, owner of four businesses, the dreaded task seemed to keep falling off the to-do list. So, today I decided to do what I know needed to be done and that was to clean up my cyber house. Now, many of you may be able to relate and I admit I am definitely letting my slip show on this one. I only hope that it helps inspire at least one of you to take a look at your own digital footprints and see if you've not been leading your loyal friends, followers and even potential clients into blind alleys and dead ends.

The first thing on my list, thanks to the trusted Media Marketing Review of my new Digital Marketing Guru - Gwen Montoya, was to make sure that my newly designed site included links to ALL my relevant social media profiles. Hut-hmm, let's just say I failed miserably here. You see I am a fire-aim-shoot kind of personality [Total Type A] and when I decided to make this shiny new site, I might have rushed a few things in the last throws of crossing my self-imposed finish line. So, as Gwen carefully explained that having the flow of my digital presence be consistent a knot of self-ridicule started to grow in my belly. I knew she was right and somehow continuing to put it off until "later" was definitely only making matters worse.

Little did I know just how bad things were. You see, again, like many of you I had the best of intentions when it came to joining the world wide web and every time someone mentioned a new social media platform I'd rush to join up and create a nifty little profile, primarily based on my life and business at that moment. I'd do my best to keep up with it, at least for a few days, weeks or even months but then like so many times before, it became a dead end collecting dust on the off ramp of some Ethernet highway. To give you an idea of how bad it is I actually have a MySpace account - and no I will NOT provide a link to it here.

Gwen was great at helping me weed out my social media garden and find a clear path to creating something manageable, purposeful and something that I can successfully commit to tending. With that I set out to clean up outdated, under utilized and even missing profiles on the major social media platforms. Soon I found that the things I previously might have blamed for a slowing of new client calls - such as downturn in the economy, a slow-time of year or even my own transition from full to part-time work - possibly weren't the only culprits and that a series of "hanging-chads" in the form of outdated phone numbers, website links and even an old physical address could be creating a bad taste with potential clients long before we even met.

So, to help ensure that I've done my homework well, I am putting forth this challengeIf you can see this please LIKE or SHARE the image to let me know. I have updated all my media profiles and want to make sure they are all functioning. When you click on the link you will ALSO receive an incredible deal to Mastering Your Life with the Law of Attraction Now as my way of saying thanks!